As residents across the Bay Area have been hitting beaches and swimming in lakes to combat the intense heat of the last few days, there have been two fatal drowning incidents, one at Crissy Field on Monday, and one at Lake Del Valle near Livermore.
Uber and Lyft are joining forces to try to quash AB5, a state bill that would force them to make drivers employees; the SFMTA won't name a new director before the current one leaves; and a shark was spotted in Bodega Bay.
A crash involved two big rigs backed up I-580 eastbound today, there is/was a large power outage in Berkeley, and Oakland is having a budget-passing problem.
More gruesome details have emerged in the case against accused killers Stephanie Ching and her husband Douglas Lomas, who both stand charged with the murder and dismemberment of Ching's elderly father, Benedict Ching, last month.
The team behind Seven Stills, the local distillery and brewery operation with locations in the Bayview, Mission Bay, Nob Hill, and the Outer Sunset, is opening a fifth location in the Mission, in the brewpub space recently vacated by Almanac Beer Co.
Following on but unrelated to its more luxury-focused Uber Copter, which launches in New York City in July, Uber this week announced Uber Air, an all-electric flying taxi service that it hopes to begin testing in Australia next year.
The $2.2 billion boondoggle appears to be properly un-boondoggling itself, as a previous declaration of a “June at the earliest” turns out to be just slightly off.
The internet is abuzz with angst and speculation today about Warriors All-NBA forward Kevin Durant's probably torn Achilles tendon, and what that means for the Finals, for the Warriors' next season, and for Durant's career.
Two witnesses who testified Monday in the Ghost Ship fire trial are the keys to the defense's hail-mary theory that mysterious arsonists were to blame for the deadly December 2, 2016 blaze.
It's still going to be hot today all around the Bay (less so in SF), the heat messed up BART last night, and Apple has a plan to move iPhone manufacturing out of China.
The Golden State Warriors survived an up-and-down thriller in Toronto, defeating the Raptors 106-105, despite the crushing and emotional loss of Kevin Durant. Team officials believe a scheduled MRI on Monday will reveal a torn Achilles tendon in their star's heel.
The SFFD was conducting a water rescue of a missing teen at Chrissy Field, another small wildfire broke out in Concord, and two people were shot near the San Jose Ave. off-ramp on 280.
Last night at the Tony Awards, Silicon Valley's TheatreWorks received a special Tony for regional theaters, and a production that was born at Berkeley Rep was nominated for multiple big prizes, and took home one.
A pair of new developments will bring a combined 800,000 square feet of new commercial and office space to SoMa, as well as a pair of sloping condo towers containing 960 units. One has already been approved, while the other awaits approval next week.
News organizations nationwide have been complaining how Big Tech was thriving on the backs of journalists. Now a new report finds that Google made almost as much ad revenue last year on news searches as the entire news industry combined made on its own content.
Amputee dogs had their day at Sunday’s “Tri-Pawed Dog Picnic,” an annual meetup that welcomed throngs of three-legged pups — along with any other dogs with cones, one eye, or other disability.
San Franciscans' famous love for its fur babies extends to the dinnerware we provide for them, even public dog bowls on sidewalks.
The SFMTA's Search Committee for a new Director of Transportation is convening Tuesday, and the public is welcome to attend and comment — though your complaints about rush-hour meltdowns, etc., might best be left for meetings of the full board.
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Golden State Warriors All-NBA forward Kevin Durant moved one step closer to a potential return to action on Sunday afternoon, joining his teammates in a practice for the first time since injuring his calf.
The heat continues and today is another Spare the Air Day, a high-speed chase involving San Jose police ended with one person dead, and a history of Pebble Beach.
Last week we learned that there's some new pushback from the female-majority Sonoma County Board of Supervisors about providing County services, namely security by sheriff's deputies, to the male-only Bohemian Grove.
PG&E shut off power in Butte and Yolo counties last night due to high winds, Lyft is suing SF over the bikeshare expansion, and Maker Media, the company behind Maker Faire, is shutting down.
ESPN NBA analyst Stephen A. Smith added quite an interesting twist to the recent Golden State Warriors-Kevin Durant drama — will he stay, or will he go? The 'First Take' host claimed he "heard that Durant will likely stay in the Bay Area should the Warriors lose to the Raptors."
Following its world premiere at the Castro Theatre in April, when one audience got to see Episode 1 of the rebooted series, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City dropped all its 10 new episodes on Netflix on Friday.
A double whammy of an eviction proceeding and a health department shutdown has brought an end to Mission Beach Cafe. Owner Bill Clarke posted a note to customers Friday night saying, "Small restaurants have challenges to make everything work in San Francisco."
